Crime-Justice

TUNIS: Tunisian security units have dismantled two drug trafficking networks in Ben Arous and Ariana provinces near the capital Tunis, the Tunisian National Radio reported.

PHAGWARA: One Scooterist was killed while four others including his pillion rider wife and three small children sustained injuries when the Scooter on which they were riding was hit by a speeding car being driven by an ASI of Punjab Police near village Sarhal Mandi near Phagwara last night. The deceased was identified as Balwinder Kumar resident of village Pandori near Nakodar.

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Naresh Balyan will be produced before a Delhi court on Sunday in connection to a year-old extortion case for his alleged links with a gangster.

JAIPUR: Rajasthan Police arrested a man involved in the murder of a former ABVP district secretary in Churu, from Mumbai.

BENGALURU: The Congress party in Karnataka expelled State General Secretary Gurappa Naidu on Saturday following the charges of sexual harassment surfacing against him.

SARAJEVO: Bosnia and Herzegovina's (BiH) Border Police thwarted an attempt to smuggle six foreign nationals from Serbia into BiH, according to an official statement released.

BENGALURU: The Bengaluru Police have cracked the sensational murder case of a vlogger and counsellor, Maya Gogoi, from Assam and arrested her boyfriend-turned-killer from Devanahalli, in the outskirts of Bengaluru on Friday.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a plea seeking an in-depth, thorough and time-bound investigation by a SIT into alleged “illegalities” of Indiabulls Housing Finance Limited (IHFL).

GURUGRAM: Gurugram Divisional Commissioner R. C. Bidhan asked officials on Friday to ensure stringent action against illegal garbage vendors collecting waste and taking money from residents.

GURUGRAM: A wanted gangster was shot dead in an encounter by a joint team comprising a special task force (STF) from Bihar Police and a Crime Branch team of the Gurugram Police, during the early hours on Friday.

MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday swooped on the homes and offices of businessman Raj Kundra and others in Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh, in connection with ongoing investigations into the bitcoin scam case, official sources said here.

NEW DELHI: In no immediate relief to the banned Popular Front of India's (PFI) former Chairman Erappungal Abubacker, the Supreme Court on Friday adjourned hearing on his plea seeking bail on humanitarian and medical grounds.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that under no circumstances, Anurag Dubey, brother of gangster Anupam Dubey, will be taken into police custody either in the cases already registered against him or in a fresh case that may be registered against him, without prior permission of the apex court.

PHAGWARA: Some unidentified miscreants reportedly burgled the house and took away gold and silver ornaments worth lakhs of rupees in friends colony in Phagwara city last night.

PHAGWARA: Continuing its relentless crackdown on absconding criminals, the Jalandhar Rural Police have apprehended two more Proclaimed Offenders (POs) as part of an ongoing special drive. With these arrests, the total number of POs nabbed in the past three and a half months has reached 60, reflecting the police’s commitment to bringing fugitives to justice.

PHAGWARA: The Bilga police have booked a Tarn Taran villager on demanding a ransom of Rs 2.50 crore. Investigating officer (IO) Avtar Lal said that the accused had been identified as Satta a resident of Naushehra village in Tarn Taran district.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing drive against corruption in the state, on Thursday has arrested a private person, Madan Lal Sharma, a resident of village Baghoura, district Patiala red handed while he was accepting a bribe of Rs. 10,000.

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday attached movable and immovable properties in India and Dubai valued at Rs.106.20 crore belonging to the accused, including Chinese-linked shell firms, involved in duping investors of hundreds of crores in the HPZ Token scam.

KARNATAKA: Karnataka Police arrested six people and filed FIRs against 20 for murdering a 40-year-old man who eloped and married a 20-year-old woman in Chitradurga district on Thursday.

BENGALURU: Reacting strongly to the arrest of the ISKCON priest and violence in Bangladesh, BJP MP Basavaraj Bommai said on Thursday that attacks on Hindus in the South Asian country cannot be tolerated.

BHOPAL: In a shocking incident, a 16-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by two men in a moving ambulance in Madhya Pradesh's Mauganj district.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With Kerala CPI(M) state secretary M.V. Govindan on Thursday reiterating that there was no need for a CBI probe into the ‘death’ of Kannur Additional District Magistrate Naveen Babu, who was found hanging at his official residence, Leader of Opposition (LoP) V.D. Satheesan said Govindan feared the truth.

NEW DELHI: Multiple incidents of atrocities and violent attacks on the minorities in Bangladesh, Hindus in particular, have drawn global condemnation with Hindu American groups writing letters to the US President-elect Donald Trump as well incumbent President Joe Biden, demanding protection of vulnerable communities in the South Asian nation and also sanctions against the interim government led by Muhammad Younus.

MUMBAI: A wanted terrorist, with links to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and a terror case filed against him in Bengaluru, has been deported to India from Rwanda, an official statement said on Thursday.

BHOPAL: The blast in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district, which claimed the lives of four people, was caused due to illegally stored firecrackers in the building, police said on Thursday.

IMPHAL: The Indian Army along with Manipur Police personnel continued their intense search operation for the fourth day on Thursday to locate and rescue the missing Meitei community man even as tension mounted in Imphal West district, which borders the mountainous Kangpokpi district, officials said.

GUWAHATI: Assamese actress Sumi Borah, accused in multi-crore rupees online stock trading case, was still in jail while her husband Tarkik Borah and two other key accused - Bishal Phukan and Swapnanil Das were released on bail following an order of Gauhati High Court.

KARNATAKA: The Chief Jail Superintendent of Kalaburagi District Prison, R. Anita, has received a threatening audio message from an anonymous person warning that her car would be blown up with explosives.

SAMBHAL: The police have made another arrest in connection with the violence in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, bringing the total number of arrests to 28.

JAMMU: Massive crackdown in four districts of Jammu division has resulted in the arrest of 10 overground workers (OGWs) of various terror groups, Jammu and Kashmir police said on Thursday.

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) carried out extensive searches at 22 locations in six states on Thursday as part of a major crackdown on an international human trafficking syndicate.

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court has taken serious note of the students taking ill due to suspected food poisoning at government-run schools and directed that samples from mid-day meals be collected from all such schools for lab analysis.

JAMMU: Two union leaders were detained by police on Wednesday after fresh protests erupted in the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine base town of Katra in Jammu and Kashmir.

BENGALURU: The Karnataka Lokayukta was on Wednesday conducting raids at more than 20 locations in Bengaluru, including the residences and offices of two officers attached to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).

BHOPAL: Timely intervention by the district administration and the Women and Child Development Department prevented a child marriage in Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh district.